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• Albertus Haasnoot, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Alphonsius Petrus Somers, Boechout († 1999)
• Anje Til, Noordwolde gem. Bedum († 1999)
• Adriaan Louw (Attie) HOFMEYR, Mlanda In Nyassaland
• Brouwer, Beesd West Betuwe (GL) († 1912)
• Albertus Haasnoot, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Aaltje Veldhuis, Borgertange (gem. Westerwolde)
• Amandus Joseph Ceulemans, Stevoort, Belgë († 1992)
• Angela Emmerling, Eschelbronn (D) († 1962)
• Alexandre Baudry, Rouen, 76000, France

• Aantje ('Annie') den Hartog (56), Pella, Marion, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Catharina Hazenberg, Boxtel
• Alice Anna Petronella Maria Van Landeghem, Temse, België
• Arie van de Wetering (71), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Berends Tuinstra (52), Engwierum
• Aafke Boorsma (31)
• Antje Tuinstra (52), Engwierum
• Aaltje Snieder (34), Huizum, gem. Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Noordhoek (0), Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Geel (74), Alkmaar

• 1910 » Tancredo Neves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil († 1985)
• 1911 » Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, English actor († 1984)
• 1912 » Afro Basaldella, Italian painter and academic († 1976)
• 1912 » Carl Marzani, Italian-American activist and publisher († 1994)
• 1912 » Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor and composer († 1996)
• 1913 » John Garfield, American actor and singer († 1952)
• 1913 » Taos Amrouche, Algerian singer and author († 1976)
• 1914 » Barbara Newhall Follett, American author († 1939)
• 1914 » Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect († 2000)
• 1914 » Ward Kimball, American animator, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)

• 1888 » Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and educator (b. 1799)
• 1903 » Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (b. 1834)
• 1906 » John Schofield, American general and politician, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831)
• 1915 » William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1916 » Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 1925 » James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 » John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1925 » Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (b. 1854)
• 1927 » Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (b. 1846)
• 1938 » George Foster Peabody, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1852)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
• December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

The temperature on March 4, 1912 was between 4.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.